Letter to Markus Fierz (13 October 1951)
As quoted in Beyond Positivism and Relativism : Theory, Method, and Evidence (1996) by Larry Laudan, p. 259
“New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.”
Arts in society, Volume 3, 1964, p. 240
1960s
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part IV: A Few Greats, Madame du Barry
Letter to Queen Mother Elizabeth of Belgium (20 March, likely 1936), written to her when she was depressed over the recent death of her husband and daughter-in-law, p. 51
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
“Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.”
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter V :, Anatomy Of The Corporate State, p. 107
Context: Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.
Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Source: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 1 "The Insufficiency of Economic Materialism"
Context: The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.
"Who's afraid of People Power", Philippine Graphic, 31 January 2005, p. 33, ISSN 119-206X.
2005
